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Eisman honored for service-learning
achievements

February
3,
2010 -- Gerald
Eisman, director of the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement,
will be awarded the 2010 Richard E. Cone Award at a special ceremony
in March. Conferred by California Campus Compact, an agency that cultivates
volunteer service partnerships between universities and their communities,
the award recognizes Eisman's accomplishments in creating and sustaining
student and faculty community service throughout California.

Gerald Eisman, director of the Institute for Civic and
Community Engagement.

"Jerry's depth of experience in service-learning and community-campus
collaboration is an extraordinary asset to both his campus and community," said
President Robert A. Corrigan, who nominated Eisman for the award. "He
not only embodies the ideals, vision and success of community-campus collaboration,
but as a leader in the field he has consistently defined the best practices
of both an engaged institution and an inspired community relationship."

Eisman
previously served as director of SF State's Office of Community Service Learning
where he established service-learning opportunities for students from more
than 40 departments and eight colleges. Prior to taking on his current position
at SF State, he was the Service Learning Faculty Scholar in the CSU chancellor's
office where he developed service-learning initiatives and encouraged faculty
throughout the CSU system to become involved.

Eisman was chair of the computer
science department in the early 1990s when he and other faculty founded
SFSUnet, a campus community electronic communication program that helped
create internet connections at schools and job training centers and created
Websites for minority-owned businesses. He noted that the CSU should be
commended for funding a system-wide office to promote such work throughout
its 23 campuses.

"Many people were involved in this," Eisman said of the honor. "This
award recognizes the collective work of a university that has always been
greatly committed to serving its communities."